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When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Isaac Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost | The New Yorker
The TV version of the classic sci-fi saga sidelines its source’s most pressing questions about power and precarity. By Julian Lucas, November 1, 2021 An innocent viewer of the new Apple TV+ series “Foundation”—a lavish production complete with clone emperors, a haunted starship, and a killer android who tears off her own face—might be surprised…
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Published for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity | MIT Technology Review
“How do people get new ideas? Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially the same in all its branches and varieties, so that the evolution of a new art form, a new gadget, a new scientific principle, all involve common factors. We are most interested in the “creation” of a new scientific…

